Geneza i rozwój dozoru elektronicznego w Polsce w kontekście problemu zmniejszania przeludnienia więzień
Genesis and development of electronic monitoring: a way of dealing with overcrowding in Polish prisons

Summary/Abstract: Electronic monitoring was implemented in the legislation of Poland in 2007. The overcrowding of prisons was one of the major and most frequently raised issues related to its introduction and amendments in the following years. Along with the electronic monitoring (SDE) system functioning, several measures were taken to improve it and increase its capacity. The purpose of the article was to indicate how the overpopulation problem in Poland affected the legal construction and amendments to the regulations on deprivation of liberty penalty out of prison and within the electronic monitoring system (SDE), as well as to analyse the scale of SDE use. The overview of SDE evolution in Poland suggests that the amendments introduced in 2015 have dramatically reconstructed this institution. The SDE legal construction applicable in Poland since the 15th April, 2016 should make the system more stable and Poland should become, in a relatively short period of time, one of the European countries where electronic monitoring shall be practiced on a mass scale as penalty execution. The increased number of convicts within SDE would enable a significant improvement of the prison overpopulation situation.

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